Milka Grgurova-Aleksić

Milka Grgurova-Aleksić (Sombor, Austrian Empire, 14 February 1840 — Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 25 March 1924)[1] was a Serbian stage actress who starred in some of the most popular Serbian plays of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the role of Ljubica in Mejrima by Matija Ban,[2] Posmrtna slava kneza Mihaila by Djordje Maletić, Jaquinta, the wife of Constantine Bodin, in the drama by the same name by Dragutin Ilić, and many more.

She also starred in some of the most popular Serbian adaptations of plays by foreign playwrights, notably Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

In order to improve the repertoire of the National Theatre in Belgrade, Grgurova translated from French plays, including a book of stories by Edmond About.

Grgurova kept a correspondence with many of her contemporaries writers, Mileva Simić (1858-1954), Jelena Dimitrijević, Draga Gavrilović, Katarina Milovuk, Savka Subotić, Kosara Cvetković (1868-1953), and others.

[4] She always loved acting even as a child she imagined playing roles and now with most of her close friends involved in the Touring Amateur Theatre in Sobor, she began seriously considering it as a career.